spatial

or spa·cial

[ spey-shuh l ]

/ ˈspeɪ ʃəl /

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adjective

of or relating to space.

existing or occurring in space; having extension in space.

Origin of spatial

1840–50; < Latin spati(um) space + -al¹

OTHER WORDS FROM spatial

spa·ti·al·i·ty

[spey-shee-al-i-tee] /ˌspeɪ ʃiˈæl ɪ ti/, noun spa·tial·ly, adverb non·spa·tial, adjective non·spa·tial·ly, adverb

non·spa·ti·al·i·ty, noun qua·si-spa·tial, adjective qua·si-spa·tial·ly, adverb un·spa·tial, adjective un·spa·tial·ly, adverb un·spa·ti·al·i·ty, noun

Words nearby spatial

spathe, spathic, spathiphyllum, spathose, spathulate, spatial, spatial frequency, spatial summation, spatiography, spatiotemporal, spatter

Example sentences from the Web for spatial

This spatial displacement reveals your thirst for freedom, your desire for openness and to break with the protest novel.

Living Black & Gay in the ’50s |Alain Mabanckou |December 3, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Get Smarter—Play a brain game at Brain Turk and improve your memory, attention, and spatial reasoning.

12 Ways To Be More Productive In 5 Minutes |Ari Meisel |January 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
His playful geometric and spatial derivations are translations of some of the most basic and beautiful laws of language.

What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky? |Jimmy So |November 20, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The element they have in common, Howie tells The Daily Beast, is “the use of spatial limits to intensify desire.”

Did Claustrophilia Kill U.K. Spy Gareth Williams? |Anneli Rufus |April 30, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

The wall behind her is made of cardboard and painted a peacock blue, and it functions in spatial terms as a studio backdrop.

Breaking Barriers in African Photography |Philip Gefter |August 4, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
Now it is decidedly doubtful whether Kant means to limit the category of reciprocity to spatial existences.

A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' |Norman Kemp Smith
What, then, can be the spatial representations which arise from touch?

Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge |Alexander Philip
Extensive is here used in a very wide sense to include temporal as well as spatial magnitude.

A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' |Norman Kemp Smith
Things exist in their own characters, in their temporal and spatial relations.

Essays in Experimental Logic |John Dewey
In part by this route of the substitute stimulus, the sense of vision comes to arouse almost all sorts of spatial perceptions.

Psychology |Robert S. Woodworth

British Dictionary definitions for spatial

spatial

spacial

/ (ˈspeɪʃəl) /

adjective

of or relating to space

existing or happening in space

Derived forms of spatial

spatiality (ˌspeɪʃɪˈælɪtɪ), noun spatially, adverb

Medical definitions for spatial

spatial

adj.

Relating to space or a space.

Other words from spatial

spa′ti•al′i•ty (spā′shē-ăl′ĭ-tē) n. spa′tial•ly adv.

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spatial

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adjective

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spacial

adjective

Derived forms of spatial

Medical definitions for spatial

adj.

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spatial

or spa·cial

adjective

Origin of spatial

OTHER WORDS FROM spatial

Words nearby spatial

Words related to spatial

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spacial

adjective

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adj.

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